Making Sense Of Sentencing
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Making Sense Of Sentencing
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Author : Julian V. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Making Sense Of Sentencing written by Julian V. Roberts and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Law categories.
On 3 September 1996, Bill C-41 was proclaimed in force, initiating one significant step in the reform of sentencing and parole in Canada. This is the first book that, in addition to providing an overview of the law, effectively presents a sociological analysis of the legal reforms and their ramifications in this controversial area. The commissioned essays in this collection cover such crucial issues as options and alternatives in sentencing, patterns revealed by recent statistics, sentencing of minority groups, Bill C-41 and its effects, conditional sentencing, and the structure and relationship between parole and sentencing are clearly presented. An introduction, editorial comments beginning each chapter, and a concluding chapter draw the essays together resulting in a timely, comprehensive and extremely readable work on this critical topic. Broad in scope and perspective, this major new socio-legal study of the law of sentencing will be illuminating to students, members of the legal profession, and the general reader.
Making Sense Of Sentencing
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Author : Alison Lawrence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Making Sense Of Sentencing written by Alison Lawrence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Correctional law categories.
Making Sense Of Criminal Justice
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Author : G. Larry Mays
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Making Sense Of Criminal Justice written by G. Larry Mays and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Law categories.
As they learn about the criminal justice system, students often hear that "nothing works." Enter Making Sense of Criminal Justice--an innovative and insightful textbook that meets the needs of both criminal justice policy courses and undergraduate capstone courses (sometimes called "senior seminars"). Beginning with an outline of the crime control and due process models, G. Larry Mays and Rick Ruddell have organized the book around the three major components of the criminal justice system (police, courts, and corrections). This topical, issues-oriented approach encourages students to think critically about major dilemmas faced by participants in the system, from issues of race and gender to the use of the death penalty. Working from a balanced viewpoint, the authors argue that criminal justice is inherently a political process; they examine strategies that work, those that do not work, and those that represent a gray area between the two extremes. Rather than providing students with "the answers," Mays and Ruddell challenge them to think critically about how we deal with situations--such as the use of force by the police--and offer a framework for lively classroom discussions and debates. End-of-chapter key terms, critical-thinking review questions, and recommended readings enhance students' understanding of the material and aid in test preparation.
Sentencing A Social Process
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Author : Cyrus Tata
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-12-28
Sentencing A Social Process written by Cyrus Tata and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-28 with Social Science categories.
This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.Sentencing: A Social Process reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism, projecting an artificial image of sentencing practices and policy potential. By conceiving of sentencing instead as a social process, the book advances new policy and research agendas. Sentencing: A Social Process proposes innovative solutions to classic conundrums, including: rules versus discretion; aggravating versus mitigating factors; individualisation versus consistency; punishment versus rehabilitation; efficient technologies versus the quality of justice; and ways of reducing imprisonment.
Symposium Making Sense Of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines
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Author : University of California, Davis. School of Law
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Symposium Making Sense Of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines written by University of California, Davis. School of Law and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Sentences (Criminal procedure) categories.
Solving California S Corrections Crisis
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Author : Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Solving California S Corrections Crisis written by Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
Calif.¿s correctional system is in a tailspin that threatens public safety & raises the risk of fiscal disaster. State prisons are packed beyond capacity. Inmates sleep in classrooms, gyms & hallways. Fed. judges control inmate med. care & oversee mental health, use of force, disabilities act compliance, dental care, parolee due process rights, & most aspects of the juvenile justice system. Thousands of local jail inmates are let out early every week as a result of overcrowding & court-ordered pop¿n. caps. A fed. judge has given the State 6 months to make progress on overcrowding or face the appoint. of a panel of fed. judges who will manage the prison pop¿n. This report makes recommend. to the Calif. State Leg. on how to resolve these problems. Illus.
Pervasive Punishment
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Author : Fergus McNeill
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-16
Pervasive Punishment written by Fergus McNeill and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-16 with Social Science categories.
This book challenges the centrality of the prison in our understanding of punishment, inviting us to see, hear, imagine, analyse and restrain 'mass supervision'. Though rooted in social theory and social research, its innovative approach complements more conventional academic writing with photography, song-writing and storytelling.
Sentencing In The Age Of Information
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Author : Katja Franko Aas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-02-25
Sentencing In The Age Of Information written by Katja Franko Aas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-25 with Law categories.
How does the fact that we live in information societies reflect on the nature of penal discourse and practice? Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Kate Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to a new cultural climate marked by growing demands for information processing, transparency and accountability. This significant book explores a number of recent penal developments, such as risk assessment instruments, sentencing guidelines and computerized sentencing information systems, and argues that they are instruments of justice with so-called Macintosh traits, offering pre-programmed answers and solutions. Franko Aas touches upon issues of decision-making at-a-distance, the exercise of discretion, databases, disembodiment and the changing nature of subjectivity. She explores information technology as a cultural environment with profound implications for the nature of penal knowledge, governance and identity constitution. Sentencing in the Age of Information is essential reading for scholars and students interested in sentencing, penal culture, criminology, sociology of law and media and communication studies. Joint winner of the 2006 Hart/Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize.
Just Sentencing
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Author : Richard S. Frase
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013
Just Sentencing written by Richard S. Frase and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Law categories.
This title presents a fully developed punishment theory which incorporates both utilitarian and retributive sentencing purposes. The author describes and defends a hybrid sentencing model that integrates theory and practice - blending and balancing both the competing principles of retribution and rehabilitation and the procedural concern of weighing rules against discretion.
The New Last Resort
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Author : Amanda Hunter-Dehn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The New Last Resort written by Amanda Hunter-Dehn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Indeterminate sentences categories.
In the last five decades, New Zealand has seen a substantial increase in the number of sexual offence cases sentenced to indefinite terms of preventive detention - a punishment that leaves release dates up to the discretion of the parole board rather than set at the time of sentencing. The purpose of this sentence is protective rather than punitive and is based on ideas of risk rather than just deserts. Although the actual sentence of preventive detention was introduced into legislation in 1954, the fundamental aspects of its central tenet -- risk -- remain underdeveloped and unsolidified. The opposing, and oftentimes incompatible ideas and beliefs about risk form a "penal pluralism of risk"--a situation where no single discursive formation dominates a field, and so equally accepted discursive formations coexist. This thesis explores how the penal pluralism of risk impacts the practical application of risk logics in the criminal justice system, critically analysing the discourses within sentencing remarks from 116 cases considered for preventive detention over the last decade. This research found that the penal pluralism of risk, which judges engage with both consciously and unconsciously, is reflected in sentencing decisions regarding preventive detention, resulting in confused and inconsistent sentencing outcomes. Despite the presence of the penal pluralism of risk in these cases, preventive detention as a sentencing tool is still presented as an uncontested and common-sense response to sexual offending. The application of this sentence in the context of a pluralistic understanding of risk is legitimised and sanctioned by neoliberal logics which have little regard for the economic, social or individual ramifications of the sentence. As a result, the entrenched systemic causes of sexual offending remain unaddressed.